Sourced mysteries, cases & unexplained history

Sarah Winchester expanded her San Jose home for decades after inheriting a large fortune. The mansion became famous for its maze-like layout and for stories that she built continuo

United Airlines employees at Chicago O'Hare International Airport reported a dark or metallic disc-shaped object hovering above a gate area. Some said it shot upward and left a hol

Residents around Point Pleasant reported a large winged figure with glowing red eyes, particularly around the abandoned TNT area. The sightings became linked in popular culture to

Thousands of reports were associated with a wave of sightings in Belgium, many describing large triangular objects with lights. On March 30–31, 1990, radar contacts led the Belgian

An unidentified man was found dead on Somerton Beach with no obvious identification. Investigators later connected the case to a scrap of paper bearing the words 'Tamám Shud' and a

ODDKNOWN researched Waverly Hills Sanatorium across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and

The Stanley Hotel opened in 1909 and later became closely associated with ghost stories and with Stephen King's inspiration for The Shining. Guests and staff have reported piano mu

Barstow’s restored Casa del Desierto is a documented railroad landmark with a second life as a paranormal destination, where visitors have reported voices, shadow figures, temperat

Calico is a genuine former silver-mining town restored as a county park, with decades of reports involving Lucy Lane, former miners, schoolhouse figures, cold spots and unexplained

The former George Air Force Base near Victorville is one of the closest major abandoned-location stories to the High Desert. Its military history, contaminated and shuttered struct

ODDKNOWN researched Maury Island incident across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and in

ODDKNOWN researched Earthquake light across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpr

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ODDKNOWN researched Skyquake across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretations

ODDKNOWN researched Min Min light across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpreta

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ODDKNOWN researched Family Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency) across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record fr

ODDKNOWN researched Yuba County Five across 8 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 6 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpre

ODDKNOWN researched Centralia, Pennsylvania across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and

ODDKNOWN researched Dorabella Cipher across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpr

ODDKNOWN researched Our Lady of Akita across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interp

ODDKNOWN researched MKUltra across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretations.

ODDKNOWN researched Pope Lick Monster across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interp

ODDKNOWN researched Isdal Woman across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretati

ODDKNOWN researched Shroud of Turin across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpre

ODDKNOWN researched Knock Shrine across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 4 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretat

ODDKNOWN researched Toynbee tiles across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpreta

ODDKNOWN researched Rohonc Codex across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretat

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ODDKNOWN researched Pripyat across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretations.

ODDKNOWN researched McMinnville UFO photographs across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 6 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims

ODDKNOWN researched Pluckley across 9 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretations.

ODDKNOWN researched Ilkley Moor UFO incident across 7 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and

ODDKNOWN researched Naga fireball across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpreta

ODDKNOWN researched The Hum across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretations.

ODDKNOWN researched Our Lady of Kibeho across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and inter

ODDKNOWN researched Our Lady of Zeitoun across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and inte

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ODDKNOWN researched Cicada 3301 across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretati

ODDKNOWN researched Max Headroom signal hijackings across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later clai

ODDKNOWN researched Kryptos across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and interpretations.

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A real 1920 flood-control dam and naturally sinister-looking rock formation became one of Southern California’s most persistent occult and paranormal legends.

The only major surviving remnant of the vanished Agua Mansa and La Placita communities is also tied to Inland Empire ghost lore, including a local La Llorona tradition.

A desert settlement founded to harvest salt from Koehn Dry Lake, Saltdale faded after the industry that created it disappeared.

William “Burro” Schmidt spent more than three decades cutting a roughly half-mile tunnel through a Mojave mountain—a mining shortcut that became unnecessary before he finished it.

A near-vanished Mojave settlement where stamp mills processed Rand District gold, now reduced to scattered historic structures and a California Historical Landmark.

The former Santa Fe railroad hospital became a famous abandoned-hospital haunting after its 1991 closure, before being converted to senior housing.

A nationally recognized former women’s sanitarium, closed since 2005 and preserved by the City of Glendale, with fifteen buildings and an important women-centered mental-health his

Riverside’s National Historic Landmark hotel has a century-plus documented history and a persistent collection of ghost stories involving the Miller family, voices, apparitions and

The ruins of a vanished Altadena mansion became known as the Haunted Forest, though the local historical society says it knows of no verified ghosts there.

A historic Lake Arrowhead resort with a long-running legend about a woman called Violet and alleged Prohibition-era underworld ties.

Stedman—also remembered as Copenhagen—was a company mining camp tied to the Bagdad-Chase Mine south of Ludlow. When the mine and its railroad failed, the settlement emptied and its

Amboy nearly disappeared after Interstate 40 bypassed Route 66, but Roy’s Motel & Café and a handful of structures survived. Preservation work has turned the almost-empty town into

Bagdad began as an 1883 railroad settlement and later survived on Route 66 traffic. Interstate 40 stripped away its reason for being, and in 1991 the remaining buildings were razed

Siberia was a Santa Fe rail siding, water stop and Route 66 motorist stop between Ludlow and Bagdad. After Interstate 40 bypassed the old road, the settlement vanished so completel

Ludlow grew from a desert railroad water stop into a mining and Route 66 service town, then lost most of its purpose when mining declined and Interstate 40 redirected travelers.

An abandoned 1951 roadside building in Newberry Springs survives as one of California Route 66’s recognizable Whiting Brothers-era service station remnants.

A strange steep-roofed building in Daggett survived decades of desert decline after beginning life in 1926 as a California traveler-information office. Its survival makes it one of

Oro Grande Cemetery is one of the Victor Valley’s oldest burial grounds and a rare surviving High Desert site tied to mining-era settlement, military remembrance and generations of

Camp Cajon was a purpose-built desert rest stop at Cajon Pass that welcomed motorists before Route 66 had even received its famous number. A catastrophic 1938 flood destroyed the s

Zzyzx is often called an abandoned desert ghost town, but the National Park Service says that label is wrong: it is the former site of Curtis Springer’s Mineral Springs resort and

Red Mountain began as the silver-boom settlement of Osdick in 1919 and survives today as a tiny community surrounded by abandoned mining structures and a hazardous industrial legac

Atolia rose from a tungsten discovery in the early 1900s and became a wartime mining boomtown before collapsing into a sparse desert ghost town north of Kramer Junction.

Giant Rock and the nearby Integratron became one of the most important centers of America’s postwar UFO contactee movement after George Van Tassel claimed extraterrestrial encounte

Randsburg began with the 1895 Yellow Aster gold discovery, surged into a desert boomtown and then shrank into a tiny living community surrounded by mining ruins, cemeteries and aba

The empty pools and stripped structures of Lake Dolores—later Rock-A-Hoola and Discovery Waterpark—became one of the Mojave Desert’s most recognizable modern ruins after the park c

Along Highway 138 east of Palmdale, the stone remains of Llano del Rio mark one of the most ambitious nonreligious cooperative colonies in the American West—and one of the closest

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ODDKNOWN researched Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claim

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Five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger aircraft disappeared during a training mission from Fort Lauderdale. Radio transmissions indicate that the flight leader became uncertain about position

A Christmas Eve fire destroyed the Sodder family home. Five children were believed to have died, but their parents became convinced the children survived because no clearly identif

Residents reported lights descending toward the water near Shag Harbour and initially believed an aircraft had crashed. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and rescue services respon

The 'GoFast' infrared clip shows a small target apparently moving rapidly over the ocean while Navy aviators react to the sensor track. It was one of three UAP videos formally rele

The 'Gimbal' video was recorded by a U.S. Navy aircraft sensor and shows an infrared target while aircrew discuss a group of objects. The target appears to rotate in the display, a

Pilots from the USS Nimitz carrier strike group reported radar contacts and a white, oblong object near disturbed ocean water. Commander David Fravor and other aviators described u

After heavy snowfall in Devon, residents reported long trails of small hoof-like marks crossing fields, roofs, walls and other obstacles. Newspapers helped spread the story, and th

Nine experienced hikers died after leaving their tent on Kholat Syakhl in severe winter conditions. The tent was cut from inside, some victims were lightly dressed, and several bod

Skinwalker Ranch became famous after owners and investigators reported unusual lights, UAP, animal injuries, alleged creatures and other anomalies. The property was later studied b

Two small stone heads found by children in Hexham became associated with reports of strange movement, animal disturbances and a half-human figure. The heads later passed through re

Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed a large, dark, humanlike figure walking across a sandbar in Northern California. The short 16mm sequence became the most famous piece of alleg

Residents of Varginha reported unusual creatures and rumors spread that military or emergency personnel had captured something nonhuman. The case became known internationally as Br

Residents of a house in Bélmez reported face-like images appearing on a concrete floor. New faces were said to emerge even after sections were replaced, and the phenomenon attracte

ODDKNOWN researched Operation Northwoods across 10 distinct non-Wikimedia websites, with 7 photographs and related video, separating the documented record from later claims and int

Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Captain Thomas Mantell died when his P-51 Mustang crashed while he was pursuing an unidentified object reported by observers on the ground. The in

Several teenagers reported seeing a small, thin creature with a large head and glowing or reflective eyes over two nights around Dover, Massachusetts. Witnesses produced drawings t

New Jersey folklore describes the Jersey Devil as a strange winged creature associated with the Pine Barrens. A major burst of reports in 1909 included alleged tracks, sightings an

A massive explosion flattened roughly two thousand square kilometers of Siberian forest. Eyewitnesses described a bright fireball and shock waves, while later expeditions found no

The Mongolian Death Worm is described in stories as a thick red wormlike animal capable of killing at a distance with venom or electricity. Western attention grew through explorer

Reports of a large unknown animal in Loch Ness became internationally famous in the 1930s, though older legends were later connected to the story. Sightings commonly describe humps

A series of fatal animal attacks in the former province of Gévaudan killed and injured many people. Survivors described a large wolf-like animal, and organized hunts eventually kil

The Owlman story began after reports near Mawnan church of a large winged humanoid or owl-like figure. The case was heavily publicized by paranormal writer Tony 'Doc' Shiels.

After citizens reported a bright object over Tehran, the Imperial Iranian Air Force scrambled F-4 Phantom II fighters. A U.S. defense intelligence report later described communicat

In July 1947 debris was recovered from a ranch near Roswell. The U.S. Army initially announced that it had recovered a 'flying disc,' then quickly described the material as a weath

Two electronics technicians, Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel José Viana, were found dead on Morro do Vintém wearing suits and homemade lead eye masks. A notebook contained crypti